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## Working with a Machine Assembly

The Edit | Graphic Display Window | Machine Assembly displays the Machine Assembly dialog box. This gives you the tools to show and hide different components of your defined machine in the Graphic Display window.

Machine Assembly dialog box

This dialog box contains these options:

Assembly Tree View

The tree view represents the machine's assembly structure. Each item in the tree view represents an assembly component.

- If you double-click on a component in the assembly, PC-DMIS selects and highlights that CAD object in the Graphic Display window. Conversely, with the dialog box open, if you select a CAD object in the Graphic Display window, PC-DMIS selects its corresponding component in the tree view. This makes it easy to identify which CAD objects belong to which assembly component.

Each component has its own check box to show or hide that component immediately within the Graphic Display window.

- If you mark a check box, PC-DMIS shows that component.

- If you clear a check box, PC-DMIS hides that component (and any children components, regardless of their visibility state).

- Once you mark a check box, you can also change the visibility state of that component or of its sibling or children components by using the buttons in the Visibility area.

A shortcut menu appears when you right-click in the tree view. It contains these items:

- Select - This functions as if you had double-clicked on the assembly component.

- Unselect - This deselects the assembly component in the Graphic Display window.

- Expand Descendants - This expands an assembly to show a list of child parts making up the assembly.

- Hide - This hides the selected component.

- Hide Siblings - This hides all of the components except the selected component at the same level on the assembly tree.

- Show - This shows the selected component.

- Show Siblings - This shows all of the components except the selected component at the same level on the assembly tree.

- Show All - This shows all the components on the assembly tree.

Visibility

The Visibility area provides convenient buttons to change the hidden state of assembly component groups. Select the Hide button to hide the selected component.

- Hide - This hides the selected component.

- Hide Siblings - This hides all of the components except the selected component at the same level on the assembly tree.

- Show - This shows the selected component.

- Show Siblings - This shows all of the components except the selected component at the same level on the assembly tree.

- Show All - This shows all the components on the assembly tree.

Editing

The Editing area lets you edit the currently selected component from the Assembly Tree View.

- Color - This check box enables the Color button and displays the Color dialog box. This dialog box lets you apply a color to the selected tree view component. This check box also enables or disables the display of the selected color. Once you choose the initial color, you can click the Color button thereafter to modify the color used.

- Transparency - This check box applies the selected transparency percentage to the selected tree view component. You can drag the slider or change the value manually in the box to change the transparency percentage.